You don't get American radio so you don't know how DC actually said this time and time again, and refuse to reprint any old stories. Again, my opinion is based on actual facts.
You're right, I don't know what they said in radio, comiconventions or comics journals. I'm sure that they tried to promote their new Superman (business are business), but not that they hated the classic version of the character. Byrne, Stern and others love Superman, even if they worked on a modern, new version of the character. They gave us a surely different Superman, a Superman for the '80s and '90s, but with untouched basics. Is Superman from Krypton? Is Superman Clark Kent? Does Clark work at the Planet? Does Superman love Lois Lane? The answer is always "Yes". Particular changed (even big ones), but most of the myth was still there. Consider it just a phase in the editorial life of the character. Now it's over, and we have another new version. Maybe in 20 years there will be another Superman, and so on. I loved the Byrne era, now I'm enjoying what Busiek is doing.
By the way, I'm glad to see that, despite the different opinions, this discussion is very polite and interesting. Thank you.
You don't understand, they said that the classic Superman was stupid. This was around the same time as the Death storyline. So this was a LONG standing settlement there.
If you read the liner notes of Superman in the 60's, you can tell that they appeared to be ashamed to be reprinting the stories. At least in the English version.
Thankfully, things have long since change and DC has embrace their past with open arms, once they figured out they could make a lot of money off of classic fans of course!
I know one of the editors in Chief at DC, I talked to him about it, I am not making any of this up, believe me!
John Byrne was a big fan of the cartoons, TV show and films (you can tell he borrowed a lot from them) but he wasn't a fan of the comics, he never read them until after he got the job, then he hated them and changed everything he thought was dumb.
That's the truth, just read some interviews that he made.
My opinions are just my opinions, as long as you like classic Superman too, you can love anything else and that would be fine with me. That's only because this is a classic Superman website so it would be weird to post here if you didn't like the classic version as well.
So to post here you must like classic Superman and be nice person for the most part (no one is perfect
), you can disagree with everything I write, and that's ok with me, as long as those two things are true.